Sharing Internet Safety with a Parent

For this assignment I talked with my mom about her knowledge of internet safety and what she still didn't know. My mom is around middle age. I shared with her the benefits of using the interent and also about ways to help keep children safe when they are using the internet. I shared the article I read from the New Era called Mixed Signals: Hows your media diet-healthful or harmful?. It had a lot of great advice from Church Leaders about what we need to be careful with when using media and why. She really liked this because it was from General Authorities. Before when I was mentioning things she could do when the grandkids are over on the internet she said they knew what they should and shouldn't look at and she didn't need to do things like set up blockers or put the computer in the living room instead of in one of the bedrooms. After reading this article she was more convinced that doing these prevetive things was important. I think the entire thing turned out to be valuable for her as well as me. I learned more about internet safety and her and I even did some further research to discover more ways protect your computer from getting viruses and getting spam email.

Ideas from Class Presetations

Two ideas I learned on how to integrate technology into the classroom is first using a smart board where you put a story on it. You can then do a shared reading with the story where all students will have access to the information. Also with the smart board you can highlight important words like words students are working on that week. The other technology integration I got was having students use clickers to assess how they are doing on an assignment or to pre assess what they all know and be able to make graphs of what people vote on. Then you can discuss problems with the class that some are having problems on.

Internet Safety

The fourth article I chose to read was called Mixed Signals: Hows your media diet-healthful or harmful? from the New Era, June 2001. This article had a lot of great counsel from apostles, prophets, and members of the seventy. My favorite piece of advice about if you should know if you should watch, play, or listen to something is to follow Gordon B. Hinkleys cousnel on the 6 B's. We should be smart, be grateful, be clean, be true, be humble, and be prayerful. If we follow these we will know what we should and shouldn't watch. I also really liked the analogy Joseph B Wirthlin gave that we don't go digging around in the garbage for food to put in our mouths so we should take the same care of not hearing or seeing trash as well.

Some of the most important things I learned from these articles is first that we are in control and can control what we look at and see. If something comes on the screen or tv or radio that we no we shouldn't hear or see then we can simply turn it off. They all have on and off buttons. As it pertains to our future families, we as parents, need to be examples to our children, be informed, know how to use safety and parent blocks on computers and the tv., and finally keep the tv. and computer is a public place where you can see the screen.

What I have read will influence me as a parent and teacher by it made me more aware of the dangers out there in the media. I want to become as knowleagable in technology as I can so I will know what is ok to use and view and what isn't. As a futur parent I want to make sure that I set a good example for my children and also discuss the possible dangers that could be out there as well as thinks that can just impact us negatively like R movies. I will explain to them why I won't let them watch or hear some songs, videos, or shows. I want to also show them how the media can be used for good and how they can use it.

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My technology lesson

I plan to teach my lesson that has technology this thursday and it will be a science lesson on plants. I will be teaching the students how plants change through each of the four seasons. I will be using a powerpoint to show pictures of how specific plants change in each of the four seasons. I will begin the lesson reminding them of the life cycle of a plant and then reading a story about a seed and how it changes in each season starting with spring. On the board we will make a list of things plants do in each season. For example in spring people start planting gardens and flowers. After we talk about what happens in each season I will show a powerpoint show of how plants like a rose or an apple tree look in each season. We will talk about what characteristics are happening and what we see. I think actually looking at pictures will help the children understand what is happening better and hopefully they will remember it better.

Technology Enhanced Lesson Idea

One lesson I am going to technology enhance is I'm going to do present a power point with pictures of how plants change through the seasons. I'm using this technology because there is a laptop computer in the classroom I can use as well as projector for the second grade. This way students could see through real pictures how plants change through the seasons.

Classroom Technology Inventory

While doing the classroom technology inventory I discovered there isn't a lot of technology available in the classroom to the students or the teacher.  In the classroom there is only one computer and it is only for the teacher to use.  Students only get to use computers 1/3 of the year when they have computer class for their speciality.  Right now my class is in computers so they get to use computers every day for half an hour.  

Inside the classroom the only technology the teacher and students can use is an overhead projector, a tv, a cd player, and a digital camera.  Mrs. McTeer told me that if you want to use any other technologies you usually have to go to the district office to rent them out.  The computer lab does have portable dvd burners and I scanner, but nothing else that can be taken out of there.  It is  hard to get time to use the computer lab, outside of the classes computer class, because all other classes in the school also have scheduled time each day for computers.

IPT 287 TPACK Questions

Content

The content I will be using in my lesson is that they can identify the major physical features of the regions where ancient civilizations flourished.  I'm going to teach them about Mayan, Aztec, Greek, and Rome ancient civilizations.

Pedagogy

The pedagogy I will be using is I will introduce these ancient civilizations to them and teach them a little about each civilization.  We will talk about the environments they lived in and how the environments they lived in would affect how they live and what their culture would be like.  This would fit into the content by the content they are learning is the major physical features of the regions where ancient civilizations flourished.  I will use direct teaching instruction to teach them the basics and then do a lesson on guided learning where they will do the assignment of looking at the pictures using google earth.

Technology

The technology I will be using is google earth.  Students will not only get to explore and see where each civilization lived, but also look at structures they built through wikipedia and pictures.  They will use these pictures to compare and contrast the different types of architexture that existed in each culture.  This ties into the content and pedagogy by they are learning about different ancient cultures through google earth.

Virtual Tour Plan

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1. Athena Nike Temple, Athen, Greece	Search the article for different types of architecture components.	Wikepedia Article
2.Colosseum, Rome, Italy	Take notes of the different types of structures you see on the Colosseum.	3 photos of the Colosseum
3.Yucatan Peninsula Mayan Ruins, Mexico	Click on the Becan Photo and draw a sketch of one of the ruins shown on here.	Becan Photo
4.Aztec Ruins National Monument, Mexico	Look at the picture of the Aztec Ruins National Monument and write down different structures and architecture styles you see.	Pictures of Aztec Ruins National Monument
Details of image overlay / path / polygon: Image Path starting with number one and going to number 4. I am doing Social Studies 6th grade. Standard 1: Objective 1: Indicator A: Identify the major physical features of the regions where ancient civilizations flourish. My overall goal is for them to compare and contrast different types of architecture among these different civilizations.

Embedded Trying On Clothes

Tryin' On Clothes by Shel Silverstein interpreted by Alesha Abrahamson, Christina Murray, and Jen Ray.

TPACK for Digital Story

What is the content you will be using in your lesson?

The content we used for our storyboard is from the Utah State Core in Language Arts for fouth graders. The first one was Objective 2: Develop language through viewing media and presenting. The second one was Objective 6: Write in different forms and genres. They will make a digital story using a one type of Genre for the story. For example in my example story I used a poem.

What is the pedagogy you will be using and why is it a good fit with content?

For this lesson I will be using collaborative learning where the students will get to work in groups and select a genre of literature they want to use for their digital stories. I'm also using collaborative learning to combine two different learning objectives for this lesson. They will reading and writing in a digital story and then will show they know about a specific genre of literature by using it in their digital story. It fits in with the content becasue I will teach them the content through collaborative learning.

What is the technology you will be using?

The technology I will be using is the students will be making a digital story. The technology in this will include the digital story software and could also include using a digital camera, Ipod to get music, and so on. It fits in with the content by one of the contents require them to develop language through viewing media and presenting. They have to make and then present their digital stories which will include language written as well as spoken. It goes with my pedagogy of using collaborative learning where the students will have to work together to make their digital stories.

Storyboard and Pictures

Answering 3 Questions using TPACK

What is the content you'll be using in your lesson?

The content I will be using in my lesson is from the Utah State Core Standards for fourth grade. It is in Standard 5 Objective 2: Describe the common plants and animals found in Utah environments and how these organisms have adapted to the environment in which they live.

What is the pedagogy you'll be using and why is it a good fit with content?

The pedagody I will be using is to teach them thru letting them experiment with what animals and plants live in the different Utah environments. Then as a class we will talk about the different environments and what lives there. Then the students will work together to create a bubble chart with the different environments and what lives in each. I chose this pedagogy because many students learn in different ways and I wanted to make sure I covered a few of them while teaching so students had multiple opportunities to learn.

What is the technology you'll be using and why is it a good fit with the content and pedagogy?

The technology I chose was allowing the students to use Kidspiration to create concept maps, place animals and plants in different enivornments, and then write why certain animals belong in certain environments. This fit exactly with the content of the lesson of students learning about different plants and animals in the different environments in Utah. It also went along with my pedagogy of students working by themselves with pictures for those who are visual and also getting to work in group to use words and pictures to create a concept map or bubble chart.

Tech Savvy Teacher

Tech Savvy Teacher

An effective teacher knows how to use the resources surrounding him or her. Technology is one of the greatest tools a teacher can use as it is constantly growing providing new opportunities. It is a way to reach all students in new and creative ways and provides hands on experiences to help master the subject. An example of this technology is using Kidspiration. We chose 4th grade standard 5 objective 2: Describe the common plants and animals found in Utah environments and how these organisms have adapted to the environment in which they live.
Our first step in this process was to identify common plants and animals found in different habitats in Utah. These habitats were wetlands, forests, and deserts. We use an activity on Kidspiration where students selected animals and plants and had to put them in the correlating habitat. This allowed them to brainstorm different possible environments familiar animals live in. Then next task was to create their own web of plants and animals found in the three habitatsin Utah.

After completing the brainstorm activity of the different characteristics. The teacher does a mini lesson where she or he talks about the different habitats and what lives in each. To assess the students learning we have them go back to the Kidspiration and have them write specific animals characteristics that allow particular plants and animals to live in specific environments.This technology helped students predict and classify different plants and animals into specific environments found in Utah. Kidspiration allowed students to participate using their hands and acts as a visual representation of what they are studying.

Angie Jack, Christina Murray, and Alesha Abrahamson

This is a picture of the habitat where children added different plants to each habitat.

This is the picture of children adding different animals to each habitat.

Students then create a bubble chart with the different habitats found in Utah.

Then the children put different animals, plants, and types of weather that go with each habitat.  They find pictures of each to put with the different habitats.

The assessment for this activity is having the children write why certain animals belong in specific habitats.  For example a duck can live in the wet lands because they have webbed feet.

Technology I Explored

One technology I explored in class today was using a digital microscope that can plug into the computer. By plugging it into the computer the image on the microscope now appears on the computer. Once the image was on the screen you could use the computer to take pictures of it and record video footage of it.

TPACK

TPACK stands for technological pedagogical and content knowledge. It is basically using technology to use and help support content in specific areas using pedagogical methods and strategies to teach it. Teachers can teach with just certain parts of like technological and content or with just content. It is best for a teacher to use TPACK when teaching though. It is important for teachers to have this knowledge because teachers can then analyze how they teach and use this knowledge to help fix and adjust their teaching styles. For teachers it is important to be able to have content knowledge on what they are teaching and they also need to have pedagogical knowledge of how to best teach to their students. Finally if a teacher can use technology to help support these other two types of knowledges then the children might become more interested in what they are learning and most technologys will help make teaching easi

Web 2.0 and RSS

I learned that RSS is a tool is a family of web feed formats that are used to update you on certain sites about what is happening on that site and the newest news or updates on that cite. As a future teacher I can use RSS to give me update on educational websites like NASA or even my GoodReads account. I learned that their are many different kinds of Web 2.0 tools out there that can be used. The ones we learned to use in class are delicious and goodreads. Web 2.0 tools can save a future teacher a lot of time and energy. I can have all websites that I find important in my delicious account and can access them all easily from there.

My Technology Background

I do not have a lot of technology background.  I guess I have the basic background that you are taught in high school and college.  I know how to use the internet and many features of Web 2.0, many features of Microsoft like Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, I also know how to use adobe, and many other basic features of a computer like itunes, watching movies on the computer, and editing and adding photos to my computer.  I am hoping I will be able to learn more about computer technology in this class.